With each breath a wave can be seen to ascend and descend through the body. The inspiratory wave begins deep in the abdomen with a backward movement of the pelvis. This allows the belly to expand outward. The wave then moves upward as the rest of the body expands. The head moves very slightly … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
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Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance. ―Wally Lamb, We Are Water Katherine McDaniel, Johnson's Shut-Ins, Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, MO, 2016 … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
Quote for Today: Philip Roth
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life … Continue reading Quote for Today: Philip Roth
Quote for Today: Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alice Munro
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Quote for Today: Iimani David
Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short. ― Iimani David Public domain image via Pixabay.
